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About this. the president now being forthcoming about the u.s. interests there and what he's choosing to protect over the lives of the kurds. senate erlor lindsey graham reenforcing the president, what dow make do you make of this? >> we want to secure the oils so the terrorists don't get their ha hands-on it. it is a leverage point. it is a leverage point that we had before the president says we are going to withdraw. we are correcting the stakes a week or so ago. it is his own era that he's trying to basically address and we are not trying to secure the oil for america and americans, that's ...

New cease fire deal with turkey. russian troops will be making joint patrols with turkish troops as the u.s. was doing until things blew up with trump's decision to let the turks invade. the russians are negotiating with the kurds to arrange the -- where the kurdish troops will be, so they're really playing all the levers here. essentially they've taken over the structure the u.s. had built in northeast syria and are now owning it and running it. on this question of the oil, i've heard lindsey graham make this argument, the oil is the strategic leverage point. i've been to those oil fields int...

Appropriated by congress as a leverage point to put influence, to exert influence on a foreign leader to get information on a political opponent, that that crosses that red line. i have heard actually from a lot of my constituents that feel the same way. >> i'm sorry. are you saying that you have heard from republican senators if these facts bear out, it is the tipping point for them? >> i do think -- yes, yes, that's correct. >> you have heard from republican senators that? that's a very big deal. >> yes. >> you want to name names? >> what is happening in our country is a very, very serious s...

Whether a brief hold on military to ukraine was tied in as a leverage point. they've been looking at this for weeks now. and they know the call came a day after bob mueller's testimony on capitol hill. they're very well aware of the calendar on that. they wonder if that emboldens the president to have some outreach to the ukraine for potentially election-related information the day after. >> kyle, stay with us if you would. we'll go to the congressman in just a moment. you and kyle have complementary pieces about what this says about how the administration, how republicans on capitol hill appr...

Take those terms. you got the president committing to wanting to withdraw. he said he made those comments going as far as back on the campaign. we always knew he wanted to draw down, as hans said we don't need to be the policemen in afghanistan. the numbers of service members being killed is drastically down. but at the same time, we don't have a clear strategy as to what we're doing with the taliban or the afghan government. we know the afghanistan government is not happy about the talks. where does that leave us today? >> the president has said very clearly that he wants to withdraw troops. ...